I don't blame major developers for not showing anything. If it looks unfinished (because it is), you get derision because the game "looks shit" and is "bad". If

I don't blame major developers for not showing anything. If it looks unfinished (because it is), you get derision because the game "looks shit" and is "bad". If you show anything cool that you need to later scale back or cut you get dragged on release for "false promises". A place like Rockstar who a) has a giant audience, which exaggerates those effects and b) doesn't need the advertising bonus has good arguments for waiting until everything is mostly in place for release. (Whereas small/solo indie devs often show in-development work, because having anything seen that might interest future players is much more important to them) EDIT: case in point, even here we already have comments wondering what mistakes Rockstar made because this random development footage, likely years before release, doesn't look that much better than GTA V.